The Awami League has inducted outgoing Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon into its central working committee as a member.

Party chief Sheikh Hasina made the move with the powers vested upon her in the party’s national council last month, it said in a statement on Sunday.

After the city corporation was split, an election was held in 2015 and Annisul Huq was elected as Dhaka North mayor while Khokon in Dhaka South as the Awami League’s candidates.

Khokon had sought the ruling party’s nomination for re-election along with contenders such as Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh and Haji Mohammad Salim, among others.

Hasina chose Taposh this time in a much-expected decision.